Merged implementation of minimify command.

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+#
+# minimify -- compress file to smallest size
+# Copyright (C) 2009  Lars Wirzenius
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+
+import multiprocessing
+import optparse
+import os
+import subprocess
+import tempfile
+
+
+COMPRESSORS = (
+    ('gzip', '.gz'),
+    ('bzip2', '.bz2'),
+    ('lzma', '.lzma'),
+)
+
+
+def parse_args():
+    parser = optparse.OptionParser()
+    options, filenames = parser.parse_args()
+    return options, filenames
+
+
+def run_compressor(t):
+    compressor, filename, suffix, options = t
+    input_f = file(filename)
+    fd, name = tempfile.mkstemp(dir=os.path.dirname(filename))
+    p = subprocess.Popen([compressor], stdin=input_f, stdout=fd)
+    p.communicate('')
+    os.close(fd)
+    if p.returncode:
+        raise Exception('Compression program %s failed' % p.returncode)
+    os.rename(name, filename + suffix)
+    return os.path.getsize(filename + suffix), filename + suffix
+
+
+def compress(filename, options):
+    args = [(compressor, filename, suffix, options)
+            for compressor, suffix in COMPRESSORS]
+    pool = multiprocessing.Pool()
+    sizes = sorted(pool.map(run_compressor, args))
+    for size, pathname in sizes[1:]:
+        os.remove(pathname)
+    return sizes[0]
+
+
+def main():
+    options, filenames = parse_args()
+    for filename in filenames:
+        size, name = compress(filename, options)
+        print size, name
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/minimify.1 b/minimify.1
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+.\" minimify.1 - manual page for the minimify command
+.\" Copyright (C) 2009  Lars Wirzenius
+.\"
+.\" This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+.\" the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+.\" (at your option) any later version.
+.\"
+.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
+.\"
+.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+.\" along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+.\"
+.TH MINIMIFY 1
+.SH NAME
+minimify \- compress file to minimal size
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.BR minimify
+.IR file ...
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B minimify
+compresses a file using different compression programs and picks the
+smallest output.
+Note that this can be extremely slow.
+.PP
+The following compression programs are supported:
+.BR gzip ,
+.BR bzip2 ,
+and
+.BR lzma .